Fighting over smartphones?
- Author(s)
- Jörg Matthes, Marina Frederike Thomas, Anja Stevic, Desiree Schmuck
- Abstract
Parental regulation of children's smartphone use is typically associated with conflict. To explain conflict, this paper focused on parents' own smartphone use. A panel survey among parent-child pairs (NTme2 = 384) revealed that parents' excessive smartphone use at Time 1 was associated with a lack of control over children's smartphone use at Time 2. Lack of control over children's smartphone use, in turn, was related to conflict about the smartphone from children's and parents' perspectives over time. The relations with conflict were independent of whether parents thought that smartphones have negative effects on children. Overall, findings stress that both, children's and parents' smartphone use, need to be considered when explaining technology-related family conflicts.
- Organisation(s)
- Department of Communication
- External organisation(s)
- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
- Journal
- Computers in Human Behavior
- Volume
- 116
- No. of pages
- 8
- ISSN
- 0747-5632
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2020.106618
- Publication date
- 11-2020
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 508007 Communication science, 508014 Journalism
- Keywords
- ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Psychology, Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous), Human-Computer Interaction
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/51899152-754a-4fe2-a6b9-30fd1117f9ec